French-Burmese Paleontological Team in the Field (image)

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University of Arizona geoscientist Alexis Licht (bottom left) and his colleagues from the French-Burmese Paleontological Team led by Jean-Jacques Jaeger of the University of Poitiers, France (center with hiking staff) used fossils they collected in Myanmar to figure out that the Asian monsoon started at least 40 million years ago.

Credit

French-Burmese Paleontological Team 2012

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French National Research Agency, Universities of Poitiers and Nancy, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Marie Curie Career Integration, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar